Word: bier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 34 foreign delegations had arrived in the North Vietnamese capital for the occasion, including an unofficial group of Americans led by U.S. Communist Party Leader Gus Hall. Delegates had laid wreaths at the foot of Ho's bier. The three men who are expected to wield his powers, at least for a while -Dong, Party Secretary Le Duan and National Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh-stood watch for a time, as did other leading officials...
...Scarecrow came to her funeral; so did Andy Hardy. So, in spirit, did the countless legions of Judy Garland's fans, 21,000 of whom appeared in per son and jammed the streets of Manhattan's Upper East Side last week to file past the bier where her body, dressed in the ankle-length gown she had worn at her fifth wedding, lay in state. Many were moved to tears when a young girl from The Bronx began to play Judy's records on a battery-powered phonograph. Some, of course, came only out of curiosity. Others...
...will those who passed by the bier or watched the funeral procession on television. The arrangements had been meticulously laid down in 1966, then approved by Ike. The 54-page scenario for the funeral read like a battle plan, covering every detail from the pace of the funeral march (31 miles an hour) to the route and the points at which military bands were to play. After remaining at Washington's National Cathedral for 28 hours, the body was placed on a caisson Sunday afternoon and moved to the Capitol, where it lay in state on the same black-draped...
...have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side of the Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving, no doubt, that the first men were also the first flower children...
...other stops, wreaths were laid at the spots where Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and the Rev. James Reeb died. In Montgomery, Abernathy wanted to place a wreath on the bier of Alabama's late Governor Lurleen Wallace, but shied away in fear of provoking an incident. Instead, he sent Husband George a telegram that read: "I have just received the shocking news of the passing of your wife. Please know that we share your grief and sorrow, and our prayers are with you and your children...